Yuri Andrukhovych

Yuri Andrukhovych
Yuri Andrukhovych (Юрій Андрухович, born March 13, 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. With Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak, he co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group in 1985 (the group's name stands for бурлеск, балаган, буфонада--'burlesque, side-show, buffoonery').Yuri Andrukhovych is the father of Sofia Andrukhovych, who is following in her father's footsteps and also became a writer.